Editing Classical Latin (section)

===Through the death of Marcus Aurelius, 180 AD===
[[Image:Apuleius - Project Gutenberg eText 12788.png|thumb|125px|right|Sketch of Apuleius]]

Of the additional century granted by Cruttwell to Silver Latin, Teuffel says: "The second century was a happy period for the Roman State, the happiest indeed during the whole Empire... But in the world of letters the lassitude and enervation, which told of Rome's decline, became unmistakeable... its forte is in imitation."{{Sfn|Teuffel|Schwabe|1892|p=192}} Teuffel, however, excepts the jurists; others find other "exceptions", recasting Teuffels's view.{{clarify|date=March 2014}}

* [[Suetonius|Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus]] (70/75 – after 130 AD), biographer
* [[Justin (historian)|Marcus Junianus Justinus]] (2nd century AD), historian
* [[Salvius Julianus|Lucius Octavius Cornelius Publius Salvius Julianus Aemilianus]] (AD 110–170), imperial officer, jurist
* [[Sextus Pomponius]] (2nd century AD), jurist
* [[Quintus Terentius Scaurus]] (2nd century AD), grammarian, literary critic
* [[Aulus Gellius]] (AD 125 – after 180), grammarian, polymath
* Lucius [[Apuleius]] Platonicus (123/125–180 AD), novelist
* [[Marcus Cornelius Fronto]] (AD 100–170), advocate, grammarian
* Gaius [[Sulpicius Apollinaris]] (2nd century AD), educator, literary commentator
* [[Granius Licinianus]] (2nd century AD), writer
* [[Lucius Ampelius]] (2nd century AD), educator
* [[Gaius (jurist)|Gaius]] (AD 130–180), jurist
* [[Lucius Volusius Maecianus]] (2nd century AD), educator, jurist
* [[Marcus Minucius Felix]] (d. AD 250), apologist of Christianity, "the first Christian work in Latin" (Teuffel)
* [[Sextus Julius Africanus]] (2nd century AD), Christian historian
* [[Marcus Aurelius]] Antoninus Augustus (121–180 AD), stoic philosopher, Emperor in Latin, essayist in [[ancient Greek]], role model of the last generation of classicists (Cruttwell)